Psychology: APA Style

On this site, you will find tutorials, FAQs, and other resources to help you improve your writing, master APA Style, and learn the conventions of scholarly publishing.

Examples of the most common works that writers cite are provided on this page;

Use this checklist while writing your paper to make sure it is consistent with seventh edition APA Style. This
checklist corresponds to the writing and formatting guidelines described in full in the Publication Manual of the
American Psychological Association (7th ed.)

Tips about paper format, inclusive language, and references.

APA Style Journal Article Reporting Standards (APA Style JARS) are a set of guidelines designed for journal authors, reviewers, and editors to enhance scientific rigor in peer-reviewed journal articles. Educators and students can use APA Style JARS as teaching and learning tools for conducting high quality research and determining what information to report in scholarly papers.

The APA Style blog is the official companion to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, Seventh Edition. It’s run by the APA Style team—a group of style experts who work with APA Style every day. The APA Style blog is a place for the APA Style team to explore the nuances of style guidelines and to provide insights on updates in the seventh edition. The APA Style blog has announcements and information about new products and updates to the APA Style.

The links point to brief informational guides for creating accurate citations.

Open access resources on APA Style.

The Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University houses writing resources and instructional material, and we provide these as a free service of the Writing Lab at Purdue. Students, members of the community, and users worldwide will find information to assist with many writing projects. Teachers and trainers may use this material for in-class and out-of-class instruction. These OWL resources will help you learn how to use the American Psychological Association (APA) citation and format style. This section contains resources on in-text citation and the References page, as well as APA sample papers, slide presentations, and the APA classroom poster.

This section provides a quick resource for citing references in papers using the 6th edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association.

RefWorks is a web-based database and bibliography creator. RefWorks users can import references from online databases and use these references in writing their papers and automatically format the bibliography and paper in seconds.

Mendeley is a free reference manager that can help you store, organize, note, share and cite references and research data.

Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, annotate, cite, and share research.

Use Citation Machine to create citations and check your paper for grammar and plagiarism.